Queen of the Swamp: Amy Chesser

Amy Lynn Chesser

Amy Chesser gives Ashley Dawn Wells the ceremonial mud bath in the Sippy Hole after winning the Big Feature on Sunday, Mar 2nd. This brought on two firsts for the Swamp Buggy Races. Wells was the first to wear a white wedding dress in the Sippy Hole and Chesser was the first female to give the queen her mud bath. Stephen Sarabia

Amy Chesser takes the lead during start of the big feature at the Florida Sport Park on Sunday, Mar 2nd. Chesser went on to win the Big Feature and was crowned the first female to ever win. Stephen Sarabia

Last year, Amy Chesser made Collier County history as the first woman in 59 years of swamp buggy racing to take the title for Fastest Buggy of the Day, driving her dad’s two-wheel-drive “Aches and Pains.”

Donn Brown / Collier Citizen

Born into Swamp Buggy Racing’s legendary Chesser family, 25-year-old Queen of the Swamp Amy Chesser could hardly keep the need to speed from coursing through her veins.